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Can the present Ebola strain be airborne under the right conditions?
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Posted on 10/26/2014 5:07:51 PM PDT by nomad

This site claims a USAMRIID study found that Ebola can, under colder and dryer conditions, be as infectious and airborne as Infuenza Type-A. This is to any freeper Docs or labtechs, could you study the data in greater detail and post your findings?


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: ebola
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This has the potential to be a game changer. IF it is true, it`s a smoking gun that proves either a cover up, or gross incompetence on a criminal scale.

Anyway, it`s an intriguing site with scary links, submitted for your Halloween perusal.

1 posted on 10/26/2014 5:07:51 PM PDT by nomad
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To: nomad

I bookmarked the site the other day but only now has my work schedule allowed me to read it.


2 posted on 10/26/2014 5:09:08 PM PDT by nomad
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0bola just flies to the US. Of course it’s airborne.


3 posted on 10/26/2014 5:10:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Yes. Water vapor from your breath carries thru the air. A sneeze, cough or just normal breathing spreads this water vapor. The distance varies. It only depends on how contagious whatever your breath is carrying.

The scariest ebola scenario I heard was written years ago by Tom Clancy. Muslim extremists take a contagious nurse/nun, extract the virus and weaponize it. You hear zero mention of that book in the news. Does anyone remember it? What is the name of it?


4 posted on 10/26/2014 5:18:10 PM PDT by FreeInWV (Have you had enough change yet?)
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Check it out.

"COMMUNICABILITY: Communicable as long as blood, body fluids or organs, contain the virus. Ebolavirus has been isolated from semen 61 to 82 days after the onset of illness, and transmission through semen has occurred 7 weeks after clinical recovery"

SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST: Filoviruses have been reported capable to survive for weeks in blood and can also survive on contaminated surfaces, particularly at low temperatures (4°C) Footnote 52 Footnote 61. One study could not recover any Ebolavirus from experimentally contaminated surfaces (plastic, metal or glass) at room temperature Footnote 61. In another study, Ebolavirus dried onto glass, polymeric silicone rubber, or painted aluminum alloy is able to survive in the dark for several hours under ambient conditions (between 20°C and 25°C and 30–40% relative humidity) (amount of virus reduced to 37% after 15.4 hours), but is less stable than some other viral hemorrhagic fevers (Lassa) Footnote 53. When dried in tissue culture media onto glass and stored at 4 °C, Zaire ebolavirus survived for over 50 days Footnote 61. This information is based on experimental findings only and not based on observations in nature. This information is intended to be used to support local risk assessments in a laboratory setting.

5 posted on 10/26/2014 5:20:11 PM PDT by JoanVarga (Primordial Slack)
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I’ve been all over this for eight weeks, and, as best as I can tell from the data, the answer is “no”.

Ebola can, of course, be transmitted by respiratory droplets (coughing or sneezing), but, as you no doubt know, that’s not what “airborne” means.


6 posted on 10/26/2014 5:20:36 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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"Can the present Ebola strain be airborne under the right conditions? YES, as is already proven:
7 posted on 10/26/2014 5:21:35 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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any virus that makes it to the lungs will be present in water vapor when the patient exhales.

the question is... what’s the range.

the CDC had posted in august that 3 feet was the range ... as well as prolonged exposure in a small room (like an airplane)


8 posted on 10/26/2014 5:21:39 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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Come let us reason together.

The virus is transmitted through bodily fluids.

The virus can live on a hard, flat surface for hours.

All fluids are capable of becoming airborne.

Ergo, the ebola virus is capable of becoming airborne.


9 posted on 10/26/2014 5:21:43 PM PDT by GilesB
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But the USAMRIID study specifically found that changing the environmental conditions of temperature and humidity made a quantum difference in it`s communicability.

The fact this hasn`t been observed may simply be due to the fact it`s been, so far, a tropical disease. There was even a suggestion that Ebola Reston was airborne due to the time of year it struck in Reston Virginia.

10 posted on 10/26/2014 5:23:20 PM PDT by nomad
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But the temps and humidity are critical factors according to USAMRIID.


11 posted on 10/26/2014 5:24:09 PM PDT by nomad
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Isn’t a body fluid aerosolized virus in a sneeze contact with an ebola victim’s body fluid and communicable?


12 posted on 10/26/2014 5:24:43 PM PDT by Sasparilla
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Oh, hell yes! Put him on a plane and ship him anywhere but here!!

Oh, wait - I though the thread title was “President Ebola”. Nevermind...


13 posted on 10/26/2014 5:25:32 PM PDT by jaydee770
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Read the USAMRIID study, please. It says it can travel as far and last as long, in airborne form, as influenza-A at low temps and humidity levels.


14 posted on 10/26/2014 5:26:31 PM PDT by nomad
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as well as prolonged exposure in a small room (like an airplane)

Patrick Sawyer, terminally ill, flew 2h 23m in an aircraft with recirculated cabin air and of 200 passengers and crew there were zero infections.

15 posted on 10/26/2014 5:26:51 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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Here is the original paper:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1997182/pdf/ijexpath00004-0007.pdf

I just scanned it, but it seems to say that Ebola can be transmitted in aerosol form, but not that it similarly contagious as influenza.

16 posted on 10/26/2014 5:27:40 PM PDT by Wayne07
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There are rational discussions, and then there are discussions in which government agencies become involved.


17 posted on 10/26/2014 5:28:22 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they believed not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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Read the USAMRIID study, please. It says it can travel as far and last as long, in airborne form, as influenza-A at low temps and humidity levels.


Sounds like Global Warming might help us fight it then. /sarc
18 posted on 10/26/2014 5:28:22 PM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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Certainly arosol but I had not heard this.


19 posted on 10/26/2014 5:28:55 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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But the point of this site is that the powers that be have “over looked” this critical Army study that shows Ebola to be a totally different monster under the right environmental conditions, conditions like a winter environment.

An situation not found in equatorial Africa

20 posted on 10/26/2014 5:29:29 PM PDT by nomad
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